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Round the Red Lamp

Chapter VII · Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Round the Red Lamp is here in full — 197 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Arthur Conan Doyle • Curated US English Learning Edition

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The style of speech jarred upon the doctor's sense of the fitness of things, but still when a man's wife is ill much may be overlooked.

He contented himself by bowing somewhat stiffly.

"I shall go up, if you insist upon it," said he.

"I do insist upon it.

And another thing, I won't have her thumped about all over the chest, or any hocus-pocus of the sort.

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Chapter VII Reading 1/39

Round the Red Lamp

Chapter VII · Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Round the Red Lamp is here in full — 197 sentences across 40 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/39 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

The style of speech jarred upon the doctor's sense of the fitness of things, but still when a man's wife is ill much may be overlooked.

Line 2

He contented himself by bowing somewhat stiffly.

Line 3

"I shall go up, if you insist upon it," said he.

Line 4

"I do insist upon it.

Line 5

And another thing, I won't have her thumped about all over the chest, or any hocus-pocus of the sort.

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a

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about

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all

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And

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another

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any

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be

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bowing

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but

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by

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chest

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contented

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do

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doctor's

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fitness

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go

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have

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He

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her

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himself

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hocus-pocus

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I

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if

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ill

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insist

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is

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it

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jarred

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man's

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may

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much

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of

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or

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over

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overlooked

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said

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sense

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shall

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somewhat

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sort

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speech

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stiffly

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still

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style

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The

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thing

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things

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thumped

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up

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upon

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when

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wife

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won't

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you

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From this reading "I shall go up, if you insist upon it," said he.

Chapter 7 of Round the Red Lamp by Arthur Conan Doyle holds 197 sentences, grouped into 40 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

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